D-League player Eric Dawson to sign 10-day contract with Spurs

[benefactor]

He's not going to tell you his source. But I'll vouch that it's legit (and yes, I just said the same thing to you on Twitter.)

Yup...Trill Clinton is the goods. He's been legit every time AFAICR.

[TimmehC]

He's not going to tell you his source. But I'll vouch that it's legit (and yes, I just said the same thing to you on Twitter.)

Fair enough. Credit given.

Edit: I realize it looked like I was taking credit. Definitely my bad.

[manufan10]

Austin Toros ‏ @austintoros
BREAKING: The San Antonio Spurs today announced that they have signed Eric Dawson from the Austin Toros to a 2nd 10-day contract. #AWESOME

[manufan10]

Confirms what Trill posted.

[timmike2]

bump.

2nd 10 day contract is up!

[Bruno]

Waiting Friday to sign him allow the ten days contract to include the game against Philly on March 25th.

It's actually a great 10 days to evaluate Dawson, there are 6 games in 10 days including a b2b and a b2b2b and there is a 3 days break where Spurs will do some practices. However, I fear for him that he is just a placeholder and that Spurs have bigger fish(es) in sight.

[Darkwaters]

Lets assume the Spurs pick up Diaw after his buyout. They'll only have 13 players under contract then (assuming Dawson's contract were simply allowed to expire).

Historically, the Spurs have gone out and signed a couple D-Leaguers to look at and take into training camp (ie, Da'Sean Butler). Who do we think the Spurs will sign this year? Is Dawson in that discussion considering his couple of call-ups? My guess would be "no".

[Sense]

However, I fear for him that he is just a placeholder and that Spurs have bigger fish(es) in sight.

and that is great news for us.

[TJastal]

I hope "fish(es)" wasn't a subtle pun

[NickiRasgo]

Sorry for the bump. Just remembered him being a Spur and some of you wants the Spurs to sign Keith Benson.

I had a chance to shoot a PBA (Philippine Basketball Association) games this weekend and this conference (second) includes import. Meralco Bolts signed Eric Dawson as their import and Talk N' Text Tropang Texters signed Keith Benson.

Stats:

Eric Dawson:
Minutes: 37
Points: 37 (2PT: 14/24 = 58.3% ; 3PT: 0/0 = 0% ; FT: 9/15 = 60%)
Rebounds: 14 (4 Offensive)
Assists: 2
Steals: 2
Blocks: 4
Turnovers: 2
Fouls: 2

Keith Benson:
Minutes: 36
Points: 25 (2PT: 10/17 = 58.8% ; 3PT: 0/0 = 0% ; FT: 5/7 = 71.4%)
Rebounds: 11 (2 Offensive)
Assists: 0
Steals: 1
Blocks: 2
Turnovers: 2
Fouls: 6

Dawson owned Benson not only on stats but overall game.

Here's the gallery of my shots by the way:

http://www.pinoyexchange.com/pba/gal...llery_image_18



Some imports playing on the other team are:

Air21 Express: Michael Rene Dunigan
Alaska Aces: Robert Dozier
Barako Bull Energy Cola: Evan Brock
Barangay Ginebra San Miguel: Herbert Hill
Petron Blaze Boosters: Renaldo Balkman
Rain Or Shine Elasto Painters: Bruno Sundov
San Mig Coffee Mixers: Matthew Lamar Rogers

[TDMVPDPOY]

i wonder why this clown was not got given another look, his fkn better than blair...

[NickiRasgo]

i wonder why this clown was not got given another look, his fkn better than blair...

I'm really impressed how he played yesterday, he looks fat (some says he does look like a fat version of Durant) though. Not only basing on the stats but he defends well, decent mid-range game, somehow fast, kinda smart too.

[Trill Clinton]

dude should be on someone's NBA roster already

[NickiRasgo]

Maybe stats would lie too, I mean there are players who are really good in *insert league here* and not really good in NBA though there are other players who are former NBA players too like Sundov, Balkman. Hopefully I'll have another chance to shoot the game between Dawson and Balkman/Sundov. By the way, if you remember Spurs drew interest on Denzel Bowles (who played here last year too) and I think the Spurs invited him too.

[Bong]

im also in the philippines, i used to watch PBA before around the 90's when patrimonio "the captain", caidic "triggerman", limpot and company were still playing, and my team was san miguel beer (now petron), but now i rarely watch PBA cause players today are mostly ("mayabang"/boastful players), gone were the days that they teams played like spurs with lots of ball movement, today they play hero ball.

Eric Dawson:Minutes: 37 Points: 37 (2PT: 14/24 = 58.3% ; 3PT: 0/0 = 0% ; FT: 9/15 = 60%) Rebounds: 14 (4 Offensive) Assists: 2 Steals: 2 Blocks: 4 Turnovers: 2 Fouls: 2

--> it just show how our PBA team is out of league compared to NBA he plays like an all star here in our league, but in NBA he's like an average player or bench player

[ChumpDumper]

If Dawson ever got decent conditioning, he'd probably still be in the NBA.

[NickiRasgo]

im also in the philippines, i used to watch PBA before around the 90's when patrimonio "the captain", caidic "triggerman", limpot and company were still playing, and my team was san miguel beer (now petron), but now i rarely watch PBA cause players today are mostly ("mayabang"/boastful players), gone were the days that they teams played like spurs with lots of ball movement, today they play hero ball.

Eric Dawson:Minutes: 37 Points: 37 (2PT: 14/24 = 58.3% ; 3PT: 0/0 = 0% ; FT: 9/15 = 60%) Rebounds: 14 (4 Offensive) Assists: 2 Steals: 2 Blocks: 4 Turnovers: 2 Fouls: 2

--> it just show how our PBA team is out of league compared to NBA he plays like an all star here in our league, but in NBA he's like an average player or bench player

Hey where are you from?
have really idea
Yeah agree! Lots of showboaters here and playing with a so-called system. Though are few players here playing I admired. I don't really have an idea about the 90's but our cable provider (Global Destiny) has this channel (83/84/85/86, not really sure the exact channel) that shows PBA Classics Game and I kinda enjoyed watching it. One more thing I don't like in the league also consisting of like around 40% of this so-called half-Pinoy blood and can't even speak Tagalog, shame on them unlike Willie Miller can speak Tagalog fluently and pure-American Alex Compton.

Yeah I definitely agree that's why I said stats would lie too but to be fair Denzel Bowles beasting here and played decently during the NBA Summer League with the Hornets last year. This conference kinda sucks too in a way that so much dependent on imports, it was like a WWE's Lumberjack Match.

Having a pure-Filipino in NBA is really a long long shot, I'm not expecting too. Basketball is not our sports, because of height. Right now boxing is the best sport that will fit to us and maybe soccer, as long as height is not an advantage.

[Bong]

Hey where are you from?
have really idea
Yeah agree! Lots of showboaters here and playing with a so-called system. Though are few players here playing I admired. I don't really have an idea about the 90's but our cable provider (Global Destiny) has this channel (83/84/85/86, not really sure the exact channel) that shows PBA Classics Game and I kinda enjoyed watching it. One more thing I don't like in the league also consisting of like around 40% of this so-called half-Pinoy blood and can't even speak Tagalog, shame on them unlike Willie Miller can speak Tagalog fluently and pure-American Alex Compton.

Yeah I definitely agree that's why I said stats would lie too but to be fair Denzel Bowles beasting here and played decently during the NBA Summer League with the Hornets last year. This conference kinda sucks too in a way that so much dependent on imports, it was like a WWE's Lumberjack Match.

Having a pure-Filipino in NBA is really a long long shot, I'm not expecting too. Basketball is not our sports, because of height. Right now boxing is the best sport that will fit to us and maybe soccer, as long as height is not an advantage.

im from quezon ave, how bout you?.

yup your right lots of sports here in the philippines are dominated by fil-am players (especially sports that really need size and strength like basketball, soccer and swimming) maybe it just not in our genes not like our foreign counterpart they have the God given height and strength, i know we have pure filipino ballers that have height like marlou aquino (1990's) and japeth aguilar (presently) but IMO they just dont have the upper body strength and athleticism to dominate the paint area and i think our government has some bearing on this also due to lack of support from government for sports, we dont have the funds to develop players not like in China, cause athleticism and height wise were almost in par with china but due to their government support for the sports they develop players as early as grade schooler resulting them to be at par with the USA in olympics and some chinese ballers dominate the NBA (not just a bench player but an all star [yao ming]))

im a little bit surprised to know that there are other filipino spurs fan heheheh, cause we are predominately a miami and laker nation; even one of the well known radio station here in the philippines their DJ dont know theres a NBA team called San Antonio Spurs and worst they dont know TD, TP and manu

[exstatic]

If Dawson ever got decent conditioning, he'd probably still be in the NBA.

Doesn't that kind of paint him as lazy?

[adonis827]

im a little bit surprised to know that there are other filipino spurs fan heheheh, cause we are predominately a miami and laker nation; even one of the well known radio station here in the philippines their DJ dont know theres a NBA team called San Antonio Spurs and worst they dont know TD, TP and manu

Of course there are a lot of Filipino San Antonio Spurs fan! Check this out

http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/...d.php?t=576649

[mrjap2x]

Surprise that he isn't in the D-League anymore. Is the pay at dleague so low that unless you really want to play in the nba, there is no good reason to stay there.

Hi to other pinoy spurs fan.

[outmap]

Filipinos represent!

[Spurs151]

The reason he looks fat is because he wears the under armor body pads under his jersey. Dude is actually skinny

[ChumpDumper]

Doesn't that kind of paint him as lazy?

Maybe. Maybe just doesn't have the motor.

[DapDaGenius]

I like Dawson, as well as a couple other people were/are on the Toros(Tyler Wilkerson, Rick Jackson, JaMychal Green).

Would be nice to see how Dawson does at an NBA level, eventually. Hope he works on his FT%.